SCIENCE, PHILOSOPHY & MORE-WHAT I FIND INTERESTING

Interesting articles about science, psychology, philosophy, lifehacks, art, history, space, spies & more!

By Bethany Frasier

Bethany Frasier
Galaxies
The 15 Weirdest Galaxies in Our Universe
space.com - Stephanie Pappas
The universe contains somewhere in the ballpark of 100 billion and 200 billion galaxies. With numbers that large, you can bet that there are some …
18 hours ago
Bethany Frasier
Lifestyle
27 natural wonders everyone should see in their lifetime
Insider - Meredith Cash
While man-made sites like the ancient Egyptian pyramids, Great Wall of China, and Burj Khalifa undoubtedly fill us with awe, many of the most …
16 hours ago
Bethany Frasier
Greece
Four Ancient Greek Mysteries Which Spark Controversy To This Day
greekreporter.com - Nick Kampouris
Ancient Greece is known across the globe for its vast contributions to the very foundations of our modern world. Western ideals which we sometimes …
20 hours ago
Bethany Frasier
World News
VIDEO: See A Controversial Swarm Of Genetically Modified Mosquitoes In A Lab In Italy
NPR - Rob Stein
NPR was on the scene when the first genetically modified mosquitoes were released in a lab in Italy. An international team of scientists is conducting a controversial experiment in Italy. The experiment
1 day ago
Bethany Frasier
Philosophy
Every Atom Belonging to Me as Good Belongs to You: Whitman’s Immortal Words, Illustrated in Stunning Cyanotype
Brain Pickings by Maria Popova - Maria Popova
“Every atom belonging to me as good belongs to you,” Walt Whitman wrote in one of his profoundest verses, in a golden age of science and social change, yet an era at least as divisive as ours. The sentiment
1 day ago
Bethany Frasier
Comets
Last Seen In 1986, Halley’s Comet Will Make Its Presence Known This Week With Shooting Star Show
Forbes
Will you be alive in 2061? If not, your only chance to see something of Halley’s Comet comes in both early May and late October each year when Earth moves through streams of particles the great comet in
3 days ago
Bethany Frasier
University of Georgia
Why The Sunset Was So Stunning Ahead Of Tropical Storm Nestor
Forbes - Marshall Shepherd
“Friday Night Lights” definitely took on new meaning this week in parts of the southeastern United States as spectacular pictures of sunsets flooded social media timelines. Many of them were juxtaposed
2 days ago
Bethany Frasier
Science
PBS series reveals great views of Earth from space, value of satellite photography
The Washington Post
The show, which premieres at 10 p.m. Wednesday on PBS stations, showcases views of Earth from space — and also reveals the scientific importance of satellite photography. The first satellites helped trigger
2 days ago
Bethany Frasier
Mount Everest
Why Don't Mountains Grow Forever?
Live Science - Yasemin Saplakoglu
Imagine a world where mountains grow so high, they poke through the upper atmosphere and create a rocky maze for pilots to navigate. Maybe that world …
1 day ago
Bethany Frasier
Rome
Sculptor transforms Rome's dead trees into art
Reuters - By Andrea Ciociola
ROME (Reuters) - Andrea Gandini, a 22-year-old Roman sculptor, is making a growing name for himself by turning the Eternal City's dead tree stumps into much-admired pieces of art. Gandini, who began his
2 days ago
Bethany Frasier
Universe
How Can a Star Be Older Than the Universe?
Live Science - David Crookes
For more than 100 years, astronomers have been observing a curious star located some 190 light years away from Earth in the constellation Libra. It …
1 day ago
Bethany Frasier
New Haven
Harold Bloom’s Warning to the World
The Atlantic - Stanley Fish
The literary critic thought the culture that sustained him was in the process of being sacrificed on the altar of social justice. For more than three decades Harold Bloom, Cassandra-like, warned America
1 day ago
Bethany Frasier
Amazon Rainforest
Why is the Amazon rainforest on fire?
USA TODAY - Elizabeth Lawrence
The Amazon is burning at an alarming rate as tens of thousands of fires lay waste to the world's largest tropical rainforest. There have been more than 74,000 wildfires across Brazil this year, up 85%
August 22
Bethany Frasier
Science
All Hail the Blob, the Smart Slime Mold Confounding Science
WIRED - Condé Nast
It’s official: Humans are canceled. If we’re not intent on slowly destroying the planet, then we’re getting busy being downright nasty to each other …
1 day ago
Bethany Frasier
Sleep
The complicated relationship between depression and your sleep
metro.co.uk - Kate Lucey
Depression and sleep have a complex relationship. Often, said relationship is very all-or-nothing, with the sufferer either finding their sleep …
1 day ago
Bethany Frasier
California
Winds drive California’s wildfire season. But people are what make it so dangerous
Los Angeles Times - Twitter
California’s problem with wildfires is reminiscent of a line from the “Pogo” comic strip: We have met the enemy and he is us. “The simplest formula is people equal fires,” said Bill Patzert, retired climatologist
16 hours ago
Bethany Frasier
Game of Thrones
Doubting death: how our brains shield us from mortal truth
The Guardian - Ian Sample Science editor
Warning: this story is about death. You might want to click away now. That’s because, researchers say, our brains do their best to keep us from dwelling on our inevitable demise. A study found that the
1 day ago
Bethany Frasier
California
Unprecedented movement detected on California earthquake fault capable of 8.0 temblor
Los Angeles Times - Rong-Gong Lin II
A major California fault capable of producing a magnitude 8 earthquake has begun moving for the first time on record, a result of this year’s Ridgecrest earthquake sequence destabilizing nearby faults,
1 day ago
Bethany Frasier
Earth
Ask Ethan: Would An Alien Civilization Classify Earth As An 'Interesting' Planet?
Forbes - Ethan Siegel
The Universe is out there, waiting for you to discover it. The ideal 'Earth 2.0' will be an Earth-sized, Earth-mass planet at a similar Earth-Sun distance from... [+] a star that's very much like our We
2 days ago
Bethany Frasier
Human Interest
A New Study Says Venus Could Have Hosted Life for Billions of Years
curiosity.com - Matt Williams for Universe Today
In 1978, NASA's Pioneer Venus (aka. Pioneer 12) mission reached Venus ("Earth's Sister") and found indications that Venus may have once had oceans on …
October 10
Bethany Frasier
Art
A groundbreaking exhibition finally tells the stories of Native women artists
pbs.org - Jeffrey Brown
And now a look at an art show that is both making history and teaching it. Hearts of Our People: Native Women Artists is the country's first ever …
2 days ago
Bethany Frasier
Ecology
Understanding extinction — humanity has destroyed half the life on Earth
CBC News - CBC Radio ·
The increasing rate of species threatened with extinction that's alarming biologists is just one feature of the massive transformation humans have …
1 day ago
Bethany Frasier
Home
The Bookworm Cabin Is a Bibliophile’s Dream Come True
dwell - Marissa Hermanson
A Polish entrepreneur and an architect create the perfect cabin for unplugging, kicking back, and getting lost in a good book. Bartłomiej Kraciukand and Marta Puchalska-Kraciuk built The Bookworm Cabin
2 days ago
Bethany Frasier
African-American News
Opinion: The pernicious myth of a Caucasian race
Los Angeles Times - Joel Dinerstein
In the vocabulary of ethnicity, some designations are obvious. African Americans are of African descent; Latinos have Latin American roots. But what about Caucasians? If a Native American told a Caucasian
2 days ago
Bethany Frasier
Astronomy
Jupiter's Great Red Spot: Our Solar System's Most Famous Storm
space.com - JoAnna Wendel
When you think of Jupiter, you might think of its massive size, or colorful bands of gases stretching across its face. Or you might think of the …
2 days ago
Bethany Frasier
Joan of Arc
How Joan of Arc turned the tide in the Hundred Years’ War
National Geographic - Julien Théry
Divine voices guided a young girl to lead the French against the English. Burned as a heretic in 1431, the Maid of Orléans was both shaped and destroyed by the religious fervor and politics. By the end
2 days ago
Bethany Frasier
David Attenborough
'Just don't waste': David Attenborough's heartfelt message to next generation
The Guardian - Kate Abbott TV editor
David Attenborough has delivered a heartfelt message to children around the world on how they can help save the planet: “Live the way you want to live but just don’t waste.” At the first screening of BBC’s
2 days ago
Bethany Frasier
Archaeology
Petra
National Geographic - Mati Milstein
The "Lost City" still has secrets to reveal: Thousands of years ago, the now-abandoned city of Petra was thriving. Carved directly into vibrant red, white, pink, and sandstone cliff faces, the prehistoric
2 days ago
Bethany Frasier
NASA
An experiment hinted at Martian life in the '70s. So why did we stop looking?
Popular Science - Charlie Wood
When the Viking landers touched down on the Martian surface at the height of the Watergate scandal, they kicked up two clouds of rusty soil and a debate that would continue for more than four decades.
4 days ago